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Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire

by Samuel N. C. Lieu, Iain M. F. Gardner

  • Hardback
  • 334 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

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For scholars interested in ancient religious studies

Provides rare texts on Manichaean beliefs and history

You will deepen your understanding of a unique faith

This collection presents the first-ever English translations of genuine Manichaean texts from the Roman Empire.

Founded by Mani (c. AD 216-276), a Syrian visionary of Judaeo-Christian background who lived in Persian Mesopotamia, Manichaeism spread rapidly into the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries AD and became one of the most persecuted heresies under Christian Roman emperors. The religion established missionary cells in Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Rome and has in Augustine of Hippo the most famous of its converts. The study of the religion in the Roman Empire has benefited from discoveries of genuine Manichaean texts from Medinet Madi and from the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt, as well as successful decipherment of the Cologne Mani-Codex which gives an autobiography of the founder in Greek. This first ever single-volume collection of sources for this religion, which draws from material mostly unknown to English-speaking scholars and students, offers in translation genuine Manichaean texts from Greek, Latin and Coptic.

  • Title

    Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire

  • Author

    Samuel N. C. Lieu

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    June 2004

  • Weight

    659g

  • Page Count

    334

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521560900

  • ISBN-10

    052156090X

  • Eden Code

    1192237

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